Fencing Problem Seems Fixed!

Happy to report that my goats, Hannah and Kodiak, pen seems to be holding up. It's woven wire on three sides, but I have an electric fence on another side to keep them from the other side of the pasture.

After a miserable failure with the fence before, I decided to go all out. Five wires: one at 6", 12", 18", 24", and 36", all tight as banjo strings (figure of speech; not really too tight, just taught enough that there's no sag) attached to wooden posts.

It was all uphill from the time I realized I couldn't just nail electric fence wire to wood. When I finally got the insulators on and everything situated, I let my doe, Hannah, out. She ran around her enclosure happily and stuck her head between the wires at 24" and 36", and she jerked back quickly after receiving a small jolt. It was a great feeling because last time she tested the fence she jumped right through tearing the whole thing down.

My main project now is getting the entire pasture enclosed with regular non-electric fence. It's a big job, but hopefully it will get done in a timely fashion and give my goats a true place to play.